Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-01-15
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country have intermarried among
themselves to a much greater OK
tent than have the people in any Of
the Now England States. Delaware
and the eastern shores have coll
tributcd less to westward emigra-
tion than any other States. An IN
finitesimal proportion ofthe natives
of the Peninsula have gone to near
by cities to seek tlieiriortunes; the
great remainder live and die where
they were born. Curious instances
of the results of protracted inter
marriages arc constantly coming
up. The most striking example is
furnished by Il respectable family
of farmers, bearing the old name of
Smith, living near Barnard'S wharf,
OH the road leading to Cambridge.
Baruard's wharf is a stopplng place
for the Ericsson propellerS that ply
between Baltimore and Philadcl
phia through the Delaware and
Chesapeake canal. The present
head of lllc family, Mark Smith.his
father, Jonathan Smith, who came
from England, and Mark Smiths
snnS, Tedrick and Samuel, all mar
ried sisters. The women were the
daughters Of George llurlbut, who
formerly lived near Barnard's wharf
but now resides near Cicstertown.
on the road to Colchester beach,
Mark Smiths wife died ten years
ago, leaving no children. Mark
then married his fathers widow
She had been his fathers second
wife and Was only Mark 'Sstepmotll-
CIR. She had daughter By William
Il. Tilghman. After she had borne
Smith child he was divorced from
her. wIereupon she was welded to
Hurlhut, the father of Smiths first
wife. TO further complcate matters
Samuel Smith'S wife died and he
married Tilghman's slStcr,who was
Il sister to Hurlbut's wife. The eli
max was reached when Tedwick
Smiths sou, Jonathan, married the
daughier that his grandtather's
second wife had previously borne
by William l.. Tiighman. Was
there ever a more mixed up fami-
ly?
The most conspicuous instance,
socially, Off. long series of inter
marriages is that of the great pow
der manutacturerS-the Du Pont
de Nemours family. This family of
Huguenot extraction has been set
tied in and around WILMINGTON for
generations. Collectively the Du
Pont de Nemours family own 920,-
100000 worth of property. Much
Of these vast possessions ale held
in common. and upon the death Of
member whathc uSedas his share
is divided up among the rest. In
marriage.aS well rs in money max
ing, the Du Points arc Il close cor
poration. Rarely bave they gone
further away flom the blood than
Il cousin for Il wife, and the Du
Pont strain is as pure as that OF a
Kentucky thoroughbred. 1t would
take profound thought on the
part Of Il skilled genealogist 10 fig
ure out the exact relations that the
present generation of Du Points
bear one to another. or late years,
however, tie young women Of the
1amily have manifested d DISPOSE
tion to go outside for husbands.
The intermalrying has been car
rieu OH a systematic scale at the
lower4.,4 -, -.s:,ssssss.s--sThe
70 ) .iiu or rue eHlnSllI 2.'-,-is q ~,
,ashiell family and the Handslo
.mily and the Jones family, in I
county, Md, are so mixed
D that their family trees are abSo- L
ltely lndeciphcrable. All three
antilles are socially distinguished
nd have contributed many men Of
lark TO the professions. Judge
landy is a member Of the Mary
md Court OF Appeals, john IL.
landy IL prominent lawyer OF Bal
more, and every Methodist in the ,
ouutry will remember The Rev.
)r. Dashiell, the late church dedl-
ator,who was as great as Chaplain
lcCabc in his way. The younger
MEMBERS OF the Jones and DasliIcll
antilles are more mixed than the
Iandys. There is one or the Da-
hiells, Il lawyer, who is his own
irst cousin,as well rs his own broth
II in.law. another Of the Dashlells
5 his fathers half-brothcr, while
another is his wife's brothcr-in-law.
One Of the youthful scions OF the
rouse of Jones, who lives i'll Baltl
more. has been figured out TO be
MS own father. The advantage OF
being ones own father will be i'm.
metliately apparent to every reader.
Another curious case is that OF
tie Moore and Bowen families, III
Kent county, by tue marriage into
both families Ola lady named Rash'
She had two daughters who were
also first cousins. How delightful
it is to have first cousin ior Sis
Ter! A third daughter Of this lady
is an aunt to one Of her sisters aud
a cousin to the other,while her two
sisters are aunts as well as COUSINS
TO her own child. This married
sister. whose maiden name was
Moore, married her cousin. She's
therefore, her child's aunt as well
AS it's mother. Hcr Cousins vile
was also her cousin.
1t is only in the rural districts.
with the single exception OF the
l.. "a ~ nj